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VOLUME 4

AUTO-DIAL ING

WITH Tts 2068

AND A PIODEFI
by John Hancock

Mow that sere ef es have sodeas. sore of us are looking
for wavs te mate ese cf thea. Aseng other things. 2050's
are goed shepe gialers. They can dial a umber tvped
directiv om the computer tevbdcard or use a nuaber stored

in sesery. This cap al) be done with a simple BASIS:

progr aa.

The first BASIC asto-dial routine I know of was one

offered te the public on a CompuServe S16 20 July, 1984
by Sandy Kale (72376.1122!. Here is Randy’s prograa:

10 IMPHT AS BO QUT 119,E

13 GT 119,31 90 PAUSE 3,5

20 FOR I=1 TO LEN AS 100 NEXT E

3@ LET A-VAL AS(I) 110 OUT {19,1

32 IF A=@ THEM LET A=10 120 OUT 119,2

33 OMEE TS 130 NEXT D

46 GO Sem 40 140 RETURN

36 NEXT ! 150 PRINT "FINISHED"

<5 68 TO 150 160 PAUSE 0

60 FOR B=1 10 A 170 QUT 119.0

70 FOR E=3 TO 4

If you choese to try this prograa, you say wish te
experigent with the PAUSEs in lines 35 and 9¢. On ost
Phone systees, these can be shortened to soeed uo
dialing. Mote that the 3.5 in line 9 might as well be 4
Since the 2068 automatically rounds PAUSE numbers to the
nearest whole member. Although OUT 119,31 is supposed to
initialize the phone for auto-dial, I have found that on
ay systee. it is necessary to add a prior compand or else
the first dialing fails (subsequent dialings are Ok.
however). If you have this problem, add a line 12:
OUT 119,34: QUT 119,0

Note that the prograe waits for a key press at line 140
and if you don’t hit a key, your phone will remain “off
the hook". Line 170 “hangs up” the phone with OUT 1!19,0,

Variations on Randy’s routine have been used in other
prograas. Two that I know of are Dan Mowrey’s BREAKTHRU
and ay TELEPHONE BOOK, both of which are in our group
tape library.

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THE JOINT NEWSLETTER OF THE THREE TIMEX-SINCLAIR
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1-3 PM,
JULY 20,

PENINSULA HOSPITAL
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FOR ALL TS USER GROUPS
AND FOR ALL TS USERS

OBER:
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JE HEHEHE EEE EEE EEE

AUTQ-DIALING WITH THE
TS2068 AND 2050 MODEM .... 223
MORE PRO/FILE

ENHANCEMENTS .... 224

BINOMIAL BINGO 225

DECODING RLE GRAPHICS
FOR THE JS-2068 ee ae) 226
SPECTRUM ART STUDIO
AND AERCO INTERFACE .... 228
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
OF INTEREST ...2. 229
SOFTWARE LIBRARIES
FOR TS 1000 & 1500 .... 230

COMPUTER CALENDAR .....+26. 231

SVSTUG REPORT ... 232

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SAFETY HARBOR, FL.

Gentlemens:

TAS BAM USERS” GROUP

BOX 644

SSS72

I thought your readers might be interested in knowing that Tom
Wood’s PRO/FILE program is now available for the Rotronics Wafa

Drive.

It includes most up-dates of the original program.

With Tom’s blessings, Mr. George Fetherman of the Florida Tas

Bam Users’ Group,
provide the following:

MENUS have been changed to allow more informe-
ticn to be printed on then.

SAVE & LOAD routines have been re-written to
@lliow SAVING and LOADING to Watfadrive or to
cassette. Saves and Loads dats files ONLY.
AUTOSEARCH/SORT routine incorporates Tom’s new
machine code. (See Issue @1 of Tom’s *Break-
through")

DEFP - Un-changed.

NN - NEW NAME - as explained in Tom’s sanual.

RST ~- RE-START -as explained in Torm’s aanual.

7.

. ON ERR - Simulated routine to help prevent

Inc. has modified the PRO/FILE program to

POUND SIGN - by entering this routine you
toggle “ON* and “OFF” the BOLD characters sent
to the 2040 printer.

CAT - Entering this TOKEN allows cataloging of
either drive.

MOVE - Enables you to move files from one wafa
to another.

FORMAT —- Token permits formating either drive.

WAFA TOKENS - Wild card commands peraitted.

. IN — As a search command, permits loading of

files saved in original foraat.

deta ioss while in EDIT. (Same as Ton uses

in his SPECTRUM PRO/FILE.?)

Another nice feature of this PRO/FILE modification is the fact

that there has been NO LOSS of DATA FILE space!!!

It is very

"USER FRIENDLY" and adds considerable flexibility to PRO/FILE.
The documentation provided, when used with Tom Woods’ manual,
makes it one of the best documented programs available.

This program modification is available from Mr.
at 5956 - 45th Ave. No., St. Petersburg, Fl. 33709,

4278).

George Fetherman
(813-546-

Cost is $10.00 for the NEW VERSION WAFA PLUS $1.00 S/H.

If anyone purchasing this program does NOT already own the
original program you should contact Tom Wood to purchase his

manual.

The documentation accompanying this version covers ONLY

the CHANGES, not the finer points which make PRO/FILE one of
the best, and best documented, programs available for T/S users.

This information has been forwarded to you in the interest of

your members and/or readers, as a service to them.

I hope you

will find it worthy of your publication.

Respectfully,

TAS BAM USERS’
Warren MM.

GROUP,
Reed.

INC.

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COOPERATIVE EFFORT

PRODUCES SPECTACLILAR

RLE GRAPHICS

by
Nore Lehfeldt

No sooner had last aonth’s article describing RLE
graphics decoding for the OL (TIMELINEZ, June, 1986) appeared
in print than did John Ryan of Oklahowa City cose up with the
core of the program presented here and upload it to
CoapuServe.

John very readily agreed to the publication of his
prograa, but before it could be prepared for our printer,
beorge Mockeridge got his hands on it and sade sone
substantial isprovesents.

Betore we get into a discussion of the progras, here are
sose hints for downloading RLE graphics files from CompuServe
using MTERM:

After you have selected the file you wish to download,
use ’READ’ rather than ’DOWNLOAD’ to capture it. Once you
have sade this selection, you will usually be inforeed that
your terainal does not support this graphic display (What do
THEY know?) and asked if you wish to continue. Press ’y’ for
yes but do not hit enter yet. Go to your buffer menu and be
certain that your CONversion is set to ’NONE’ and that the
buffer is eapty (bfused=0), Then a series of ’ENTER’s will
get you back to the terainal aode and initiate the tranfer.

RLE files are of varying lengths, depending on the
asount of detail in the pictures, The longest I have seen, so
far, is about 22K. The footer on an RLE file is Bell, 6,
N,.” You will hear the ’Bell’ and transmission will cease. 60
to your buffer aenu, close the buffer. Be SURE to aake a note
of the length of the file (bufused). Return to tereinal aode
and sign off CompuServe.

lemediately return to BASIC and SAVE the buffer contents
-- SAVE "name"CODE 26710, butused.

Turn your computer off and back on (or RAND USR 0) and
then re-LOAD the file -- LOAD “name"CODE 40000. It is
essential that the CODE be loaded to the starting address
40000,

If you have followed these directions exactly, the
addresses $0000, 40001, 40002 should now contain the nuabers
13, 71, 72 respectively. These represent ’CR’ (carriage
return), ’6’, ’N’. The correct header for an RLE file is ’ESC
6 N’, so POKE 40000,27.

DECODING FOF jTF/s

bottom tac lines of the screen.

C(BUT sa-L-O-W)

-_—OSssS

If you find the first three codes of the file are
something different, all is not lost. You may just have
gotten some text ahead of the file. PEEK around the file a
little to see if you can find 7! and 72 in sequence. If you
do, then POKE 27 to the address just below that of the 71 and
the program should work -- it begins by searching the file
for that 27, 71, 72 sequence. Once you have got this part
right is is a good idea to SAVE the CODE before going on.
Then you will be able to start over without spending the tiee
and aoney on capturing the file again, should anything go
wrong during the decoding process.

The rest is easy. Just LOAD the RLE program and RUN it.
You should begin to see the picture drawn line by line {and
very slowly) on your screen. When the prograe reaches the
You will see a proapt to
reaind you of the options once the picture is completed. You
will have plenty of time to aul! over your options while the
computer creates the user defined graphics for the bottoe of
the screen. |
If you choose ’s’ to save the picture as a SCREENS -- a
wise choice since it may have taken fifteen or twenty ainutes
to draw the picture! -- be prepared to wait some more before
starting your recorder as the computer prepares the file for
SAVEing. |
Re-LOAD the picture as follows: LOAD "picture’ CODE
16384 : PAUSE 0. If you omit the PAUSE, the coaputer will
overwrite the bottom two lines of the picture with the °OK’
report. If you wish to change the BORDER color, put the
BORDER statement AFTER the LOAD statesent (If you try it the
other way, you'll see why). Of course you aay insert a COPY

Comsand in place of the pause to get a print-out of the
picture.

The best way to learn sore about this is just to
experiment with it. At the July seeting I will put this
program in the PUG library with sose picture files on the
other side for you to experiment with if you wish.

In his original notes on this prograa, John Ryan pointed
out that it was compilable with the JRC or ZIP compilers, and
that compiling it reduced the decoding tise for each picture
to around 15 seconds! I doubt if that is true of this
version. But I] have just received the new ’Tiaachine’
cospiler from Novelsoft in Toronto and believe it will be
possible to substantially speed up the program with it. That
will be a subject for a future article.

In the seantiae, this cooperative effort by John Ryan
and George Nockridge gives us a welcome new graphics aode for
the 2068.

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1 REM PLE Picture prograa, !984...John Ryan
. 2 REM Reseaber, load the sicture file starting at DEC 400
3 REM 2640 orinter, screen
y ec. Mockridge®
4 INK 0: PAPER 7: BORDER 0: CLS : LET flag=0
S DIM 1$116, 254)
6 RESTORE ; FOR n=24500 10 24505: READ x: POKE n,x: NEXT

color & save aodificaticns b

n
7 SATA 742,5, 192, 195,5, 10
8 LET g$="
video & space
9 FOR #=0 TO 21: PRINT AT #,0;q$: NEXT f
10 LET A=4¢000
{i LET 1=9
i2 LET 72175
60 LEY B=PCEK A
79 If Be27 THEN 60 TO 90
BO 60 TO &9
®) LET A=A+i
160 LET B=PEEK A
110 IF B=?71 THEN 60 TO 130
129 60 10 100
130 LET A=A+!
140 LET B=PEEK A
{30 IF B=72 THEN 60 TO !70
160 60 10 140
170 LET A=Ati
180 60 SUB 500
190 LET A=A+!
200 60 SUB &(0
210 LET A=At!
cil IF C= THEN 60 TO 180
220 60 SUB 700
230 60 10 180
300 LET B=PEEK A
Si¢ LET C=B-32
220 IF C=0 THEN RETURN
230 IF C<O THEN 60 TO 800
340 LET Y=X+Cs IF x3255 THEN LET x=x-254: LET y=y-1
300 RETURN
600 LET B=PEEK A
619 LET C=B-32
620 IF C=0 THEN RETURN
650 IF C<O THEN 60 TO 800
640 RETURN
706 LET D=0
713 IF 255<x THEN LET Y=¥-t
716 JF 255<% THEN LET X=X-256
717 IF YO THEN LET 1S(ABS y,x+1)="0": IF flag=0 THEN LET
flag=1: 60 SUB 740
720 IF yo=0 THEN INVERSE 1: PLOT X,Y: INVERSE 0

": REM inverse

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PROMLET D=De1
734 LET X=%t! ;

74G 'F D=C THEN RETURN
7E0 GB TO 710
760 INK 9: PRINT @13AT 9,0; FLASH 13"WAIT."; FLASH O;AT 0,4
s"At beep: copy neg. image”

762 PRINT #1:AT 1,0:°0-7 new ink/paper(2) save screen": INK
0

763 RETURN
B00 FOR x=1 TO ih: FOR y=i 72 254
BO2 IF 1$tx,y)<2"0" THEN LET i€(x,y)="1"

804 NEXT y
206 NEXT x

839 FOR z=o TE t

Q35 -OR y=1 TO 224 STEP 8

G27 FOR s=zt3+] TO 238+8

$42 LET d$="BIN "+1$(x,y TO yt?)

GéeC POKE USR "a"+x-1-(2$8), VAL d$

937 NEXT x

870 PRINT @13AT z, (y-1)/8;"": REM graphic “a"

B75 NEXT y

874 NEXT z

880 LET r$="0": LET s$="7": 60 SUB 960

981 SEEP 5,10

O82 LET r$=INKEY$: IF r$="c" OR r$="n" OR r$="q" OR (CODE r
$>=48 AND CODE r$<=35) OR r$="s" THEN BEEP .5,10

B92 IF r$="c" THEN RANDOMIZE USR 24500

884 IF r$="n" THEN 60 SUB 990

885 IF r$="g" THEN ‘STOP

896 IF CODE r$>=48 AND CODE r$<=55 THEN 60 SUB 950

e87 JF r§="s" THEN 60 SUB 970

990 60 TO 882

909 FOR n=14384 T0 22527: LET x=PEEK n: POKE n,255-x: NEXT
n: RETURN

910 STOP

950 LET s$=INKEY$: IF (CODE s$>=48 AND CODE s$<=55) THEN 8
EEP 5,10: 60 TO 960

954 60 10 950

960 DIM a${768)

962 PRINT AT 0,03 OVER i; INK VAL r$;: PAPER VAL s$sa$(i TO
704): PRINT @1;AT 0,9: QUER 1; INK VAL r$: PAPER VAL s$3a${
705 TO 734): PRINT #1:AT 1,0; OVER 1; INK VAL r$; PAPER VAL

§$;a$(72? TO 748)

964 PETURN

970 DIM 1$f1): LET 2=37143

97{ FOR n=22527 TO 16384 STEP -1

972 IF x=35090 THEN INK 9: PRINT @£:AT 0,0; FLASH f: "WAIT.
“; FLASH 0;" TO RELOAD-LOAD ’’picture’’": PRINT #1;AT 1,03"
CODE 16384,6144: PAUSE 0 ": INK 9

972 POKE x, PEEK nz LET x=x-1: NEXT ns BEEP .5,10

975 SAVE “picture"CODE 21000,6144: CLS : LET x=31000: FOR n
214384 10 22527: POKE n, PEEK x: LET x=xtis: NEXT nh

976 LET r$="O": LET s$="7": 60 SUB 960: BEEP .5,10: RETURN

999 CLEAR : SAVE "rle"; VERIFY "rie*

A REPDRT FROH ONE OF OUR SO. :
( ad | E | ; NJ E CALIF. TIMELINEZ SUBSCRIBERS.

Dear George:

Ren

Hope things are going well for you and -the other PUG
members. Interest seems to be increasing as far as our West Los
Angeles ZX users group is concerned. The last two meetings had
over 40 plus people in attendance, some as far south as San
Diego!

Ed Grey, has put together a local electronic newsletter on
his Timex Exchange BBS called "The Timex Press". For those of
you with modems and perhaps a long-distance service like GTE
Sprint or PC-Pursuit can call and download the contents. His
first issue was very good I think. The number of the Average
Remote BBS (The Timex Exchange is a Sub-Board #4) is:

(212) 325-0213, and instructions to access the newsletter are
given in Section 4.

Hope you can use this short article for your next
newsletter. I’ve been able to convert the Spectrum program Art
Studio to work with my AERCO centronics interface. If you don’t
have this program, by all means get it! It is by far the best
graphics program available for the Spectrum.

Well, that’s it for now. Take care!

~~

hte Mehr .

Steve Ishii

Aart Studio — AERCO CrI Conversion

Imetructi ons

Steve Ishii (3) In the iamediate mode, POKE the following 26 bytes into

memory:

Reter to Appendix 6 in the Users Manual for Instructions on 46000, 100 46010, 201 46020, 211

Customizing the Art Studio Program with a User Defined Print 48001, 135 48011,219 48021, 127

Driver. 48002, 110 46012, 127 48022, 60
48003, 135 48013, 203 46023,211

NOTE! Your printer must have bit-mapped graphics capability 48004, 111 48014, 1035 48024, 127

in order to be able to fully utilize the print options. 48005, 155 48015,201 48025, 201
48006, 114 48016, 211

Aart Studio (And Extended Art Studio) can be converted to work 46007, 135 48017,127

with the AERCO CPI with the following customization steps. 48008, 26 48018, 62

The procedure for entering the modifications is as follows: 48007,0 48019,14

(1) Load the ART STUDIO or EXTENDED ART STUDIO program as (4) Re-Start the proaram with RUN and enter 255 (user own

usual. driver) when asked which interface is being used.
(2) BREAK into the program once it has loaded. (5) The remaining steps are identical to the instructions

in the ART STUDIO manual for customizing the program
for the type of printer being used. The program wil)
automatically save your customized print driver rout

(6) To test your modifications, create some screen design
(or load a previous saved screen) and pull down the
PRINT menu. Select any of the options desired and
cross your fingers' You should get beautiful screen
copies of your artistic talents!

ENJOY!

MISC. ITEMS OF XINTEREST 229

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doesn’t bother the company. . Mdamwasbice 20.1 0.14 86.5 19.6 49 ITT
Guy Kewney Al ether 1,785.1 &1! .
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Primarily education and government "Makes the Tandy 100 Seurve: infoCorp, 1908 |

Republic Telecom
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Western Union

Timex has succeeded where Sinclair
failed and has sold 800,000 US-
style Sinclair Spectrums, known as
the 2048 and 2068, and Timex
FDD3000 disk drives to Poland.
The deal, signed two weeks ago,
was arranged by Takis Patrikarakos,
managing director of London com-
pany Micro Interface, who also acts
as consultant for Timex Portugal.
Patrikarakos confirmed that the
deal was taking place. “That is all I
can say at present,” he told Micro-
Scope. “More details will be releas-
ed by Timex in New York directly.”
Patrikarakos started work two
years ago trying to sell Timex’ disk
drive into the Eastern bloc. But in
April this year Sinclair granted
Timex the right to market Spectrum

IN POLISH

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EXPORT TRIUMPH
FROM THE HAY 29, 1986 MICRO-

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products in that part of the world to
offset part of its debts to the
manufacturer.

This gave Patrikarakos the op-
prtunity of selling complete systems
into Poland.

The 800,000 units will be sold
over the next five years, going intial-
ly into education, but almost cer-
tainly through distributors into
other markets. During this time the
unnamed Polish organisation will

acquire rights to manufacture in-
creasingly large parts of the com-
puters under a technology transfer
agreement.

Delivery of the machines is due to
start in the summer.

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One af the more intriguing uses of this routine is as an
added module in an aiready existing program. For example,
here is av variation of Randy's orograe apeclied te an
ANDRESS BOOK version of PRO/FILE. The first three tines
get the phone number froma PRO/FILE’s E$ array, Records in
PRO/FILE are PRINTed line by line frog the arrav &$ which
is DiNensicned (15,32). The auto-dial routine aust know
where to get the usher, My PRO/FILE Address Book is set
up sc that the ohone numbers are always on line S$ of each
record, This is why line 9010 of the ‘ollowing progras
acdule scans E$(5). The aodule nay be sut anywhere within
PRO/FILE that deesn’t interfere with orooram cneration.
It certainly doesn’t have ta start at tine 90h,
iat
a

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ashles rer:

The following is essential}
program with some over:
compatibility.

Dration af the ahove

sed o45r regents of

Lines @000-8070 scan the ¢irst 12 scaces in FSi) ‘for
numbers putting them inte B$ end ignoring any Aon-nusera
characters, Line 8020 sets us an ON ER® 60 TO which
aliows BREAK ts abort the dialisc process, sending the

-progras directly to line 8100 aad thereby hanging up the

phone. Line 8030 aise initializes the shone system. Lites
BGS0-8070 accoenmlish the actual dialing. Line 2080 alerts
the user to pick up the shone with a BEEP and a froapt.
The PAUSE allows time to do this, then osens the sodes
relay sc that when the phone is placed back on the hook,
hanguo will occur.

]1f dialing orabless are encountered, try lencthenine the
PAUSES in lines BO+d and 8070.

It is hoced that vow wil! be encouraged ta nat only fry
the routines actiined atove, but to exneriment with ways

of adding auto-dialieg ts vaur own prograas!
8000 LET Bg=""
BO10 FOR X=1 70 iS: TF COPE ES(5,43347 Suh
CODE ES(S,XCS8 THEN LET Bgzisees§, X) Svea Tes REERET
8020 NEXT X peepee es ee
BOSO ON ERR £0 TH 9106: GUT 119,34: QUT 119.4:
OUT 119,21: PAUSE 40

B40702.1802 BATA “SCLKB407
ose GUTS/SV (Group Using Tiaex Siaclair of Silicon Valley) ....

BOS PRINT AT S5.8:FLASY {2 "DIALING "FLASH G:8$ Paine SAU SEDC Tal bay Sta hare Tineke Meee!
8050 FOR ¥=1 TO LEN 88; LET 7=VAL B¢¢a): IF 2=0 THEN | By Bill Miller 408 253-3175

LET 2=10

8060 PAUSE 20

8070 FOR Y=1 7) Z: FOR E=3 TO 4: OUT 119, E: PAUSE 1;
NEXT E: OUT 119.4: QUT 129,2: NEXT Vs NEXT X

G08) PRINT AT 15.0:;"DIALING COMPLETED--F ISK UP PHONE®:
BEEP 7,14; PAUSE 100 crapt at cot ys te2e, GUTS/EV USvSTOR?) eeting iver
8100 OUT 119.0: PAUSE 40! ON ERR RESET : 60 TO 1050 itain. This catalog features all. the. rig Mie

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Welcose to new GUTS/SV aeaber Don Elliott.

Radoslav Breznikar of Playa Del Rey, CA writes to ask where
and to whoa to send his sick 152068. Does anyone know if the
TIMEX Product Service Center, Building 19, Adses Field, Little
Rock, Arkansas, 72203, will still repair any 1S2049 {even ene
out of warranty) for 430?

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A line eust be added eariier in SROVFILE tr send srcgrae
control to tho avto-dial module, such as:

165 TF ¥§="DiAL” THEN 60 TO e000
This would allow the word “S{AL* to he typed as a command
te initiate the routine.

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